Jubilee picks candidate for Kajiado
What you need to know:
- Mr Tutui received 10,502 votes in a joint nomination carried out by Jubilee coalition parties in 52 polling stations across the vast constituency.
- Second to him was Mr Memusi Kanchori, who garnered 10,100 votes. Mr Kanchori is said to be planning to move to the Orange Democratic Movement to seek its ticket because he was not satisfied with the result.
- Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery, whose appointment to the Cabinet and resignation left the seat vacant, belongs to the clan.
Voters have picked Mr Patrick Tutui to be the Jubilee Alliance Party candidate for the Kajiado Central parliamentary seat.
Mr Tutui received 10,502 votes in a joint nomination carried out by Jubilee coalition parties in 52 polling stations across the vast constituency.
Second to him was Mr Memusi Kanchori, who garnered 10,100 votes. Mr Kanchori is said to be planning to move to the Orange Democratic Movement to seek its ticket because he was not satisfied with the result.
The aspirant declared his intention to leave Jubilee because he got more votes than Mr Tutui from the populous Matapato clan.
The clan is the largest voting block in the constituency. Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery, whose appointment to the Cabinet and resignation left the seat vacant, belongs to the clan.
“I cannot accept defeat from someone who did not beat me in my home area,” Mr Kanchori said soon after Mr Tutui was declared the winner at the Maasai Technical Institute in Kajiado Town.
Captain Antony Kiroken was third, with 7,666 votes. He conceded defeat and vowed to remain steadfast in Jubilee and support Mr Tutui.
Ms Joyce Kimojino came a distant fourth, after she got 250 votes. She was the only woman candidate in the Jubilee nomination.
